The Fifty-Fifth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing will kick off with Opening Tutorials being held on Tuesday, October 3, 2017 at the Coordinated Science Laboratory. The conference sessions will start on Wednesday, October 4, 2017 through Friday, October 6, 2017, at the Allerton Park and Retreat Center. The Allerton House is located twenty-six miles southwest of the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois in a wooded area on the Sangamon River. It is part of the fifteen-hundred acre Robert Allerton Park, a complex of natural and man-made beauty designated as a National natural landmark. Allerton Park has twenty miles of well-maintained trails and a living gallery of formal gardens, studded with sculptures collected from around the world.

Papers presenting original research are solicited in the areas of:biological information systemscoding techniques and applicationscoding theorydata storageinformation theorymultiuser detection and estimationnetwork information theorysensor networks in communicationswireless communication systemsintrusion/anomaly detection and diagnosisnetwork codingnetwork games and algorithmsperformance analysispricing and congestion controlreliability, security and trustdecentralized control systemsrobust and nonlinear controladaptive control and automationroboticsdistributed and large-scale systemscomplex networked systemsoptimizationdynamic gamesmachine learning and learning theorysignal models and representationssignal acquisition, coding, and retrievaldetection and estimationlearning and inferencestatistical signal processingsensor networksdata analytics.

Final versions of papers that are presented at the conference are required to be submitted electronically by October 8, 2017 in order to appear in the Conference Proceedings and IEEE Xplore.

PLENARY LECTURE by John Lafferty, Louis Block Professor, Department of Statistics & Computer Science, University of Chicago is scheduled for Friday, October 6, 2017 at the Allerton Park and Retreat Center.

OPENING TUTORIAL LECTURES by Nathan Srebro, Professor, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago and Alexander (Sasha) Rakhlin, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Pennsylvania will be presented on Tuesday, October 3, 2017 at the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS: Regular papers suitable for presentation in twenty minutes are solicited. Regular papers will be published in full (subject to a maximum length of eight 8.5” x 11” pages, in two column format) in the Conference Proceedings. Only papers that are actually presented at the conference and uploaded as final manuscripts can be included in the proceedings, which will be available after the conference on IEEE Xplore.

For reviewing purposes of papers, a title and a five to ten page extended abstract, including references and sufficient detail to permit careful reviewing, are required.

Manuscripts can be submitted during June 16-July 10, 2017 with the submission deadline of July 10th being firm. Please follow the instructions at the Conference website: http://www.csl.illinois.edu/allerton/.

Authors will be notified of acceptance via e-mail by August 7, 2017, at which time they will also be sent detailed instructions for the preparation of their papers for the Proceedings.